Love Makes You Powerful

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Love Makes You Powerful
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Mumbai, 28 August 1973 (2 Excerpts)

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But once two brothers met in a jungle. But they thought that they were enemies, and they wanted to fight with each other. And when they came to blows, they couldn’t hit each other. Then they took out their arrows. The arrows wouldn’t work. They were quite surprised at this, and when they asked each other, “Who is your mother?” they found out mother was the same. And then they realized that they were not foreigners neither enemies but they were made of the same fiber. What sweetness, what beauty, that knowledge has given them. And what security of understanding that everywhere in the whole world we have brothers and sisters, who are on their inner being, on their divine, and how we are bound together with that love.

When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people, because people think those who love are weak. But the most dynamic power in this world is that of love. Is the most aggressive power: is that of love.

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The love that I’m talking about, the divine love, makes you not only strong but dynamic. It is the greatest luminous power that we can think of. Only when love is surrounded by gross and is lost in the gross, it looks as if it is weak and under chains. The time it is released, the dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world.

When people get their realization, automa­tically the ego drops out, to a great extent, I should say. Because, you say that, “The vibrations are passing.” You don’t say that you are giving them. Because of the dropping of the ego, sometimes it happens that you feel that whatever you wanted to have, you’ve got it, and you better not talk about it. When there is any opposition from anywhere, you shun it and sit away from it. You don’t want to face the opposition, of any negative opposition, whether it is by speech or even by evil methods. We run away from that, thinking, “Oh God, how are we going to face it?”

On the contrary, a person who is negative, who has got hatred, becomes — as they call it, means a person who talks big. Such a person talks, starts talking big. He thinks he is above everybody else, he can befool all the world. He takes a responsibility on himself. He starts a big ashram or some big place where he sits down with all his ignorance and starts spreading his knowledge—the so-called—to people. By his methods people get impressed, and they all go and fall at his feet. While the realized sits at home quietly, wondering what are these fools doing.

But it is not now for the realized to sit down and to wonder and laugh at the foolishness of the people who are not yet realized. Not even to take pity on them but to come out, come out with the sword of love to win the whole world. It is very, very essential. If the creation has to be saved, then you are not to keep mum about it.